conductance
conductance
Definition
con·duct·ance (kən duk′təns)
noun
the ability of a component to conduct electricity, measured in siemens and equal to the ratio of the current to the voltage: it is the reciprocal of resistance: symbol, G
conductance
Telecom Definition
A measure of the ability of a substance to allow electric current to pass through in relation to the applied voltage (E). Conductance is the reciprocal of resistance (R), as measured in ohms ( ). Conductance is measured in mhos, which is ohms spelled backwards. (Isn't that clever?)
conductance
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- increase: There has also been the suggestion that benzodiazepines can increase the conductance of high affinity GABA A receptors 79.
- activate: MPB-91 is also able to activate conductance in primary cell cultures taken from patients with the D 508 mutation.
- measure: These meters are supposed to measure the moisture in materials, however what they actually do is measure the electrical conductance.
- define: The use of silicon allows precise micromachining of components with well defined thermal conductance.
Preposition: in
- plexus: Application of patch clamp electrophysiological methods has identified two K + conductances in the mammalian choroid plexus: Kv and Kir.
Adjective modifier
- stomatal: Weather affects response, dry conditions for example, decreasing the effects because of lower stomatal conductance.
- electrical: These meters are supposed to measure the moisture in materials, however what they actually do is measure the electrical conductance.
- thermal: The use of silicon allows precise micromachining of components with well defined thermal conductance.
- maximum: For example, the maximum channel conductance should be a RANGE variable, since it can be different at different points on a neuron.
- low: Weather affects response, dry conditions for example, decreasing the effects because of lower stomatal conductance.
- increased: Over expression of barley aquaporin gene in rice led to increased carbon dioxide conductance and assimilation [ 21 ] .
Modifies a noun
- regulator: The disease gene is named CFTR, which stands for cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator.
- measurement: K Ca activity was identified by reversal potential and conductance measurements.
- band: In diamond, the energy gap between the valence band and conductance band is too high for this to happen.
Noun used with modifier
- transmembrane: The disease gene is named CFTR, which stands for cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator.
- fibrosis: The disease gene is named CFTR, which stands for cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator.
- potassium: What is the peak conductance of the potassium conductance?
- chloride: Molecules are able to activate chloride conductance in airway cell line, primary human cell cultures and most importantly from cells with CFTR mutations.
- membrane: Binding of GABA opens an integral chloride channel, producing an increase in membrane conductance that results in inhibition of neuronal activity.
- ion: David Williams, Dept. of Chemistry UCL ), ion conductance imaging 107 ( Prof.
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